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Academic Initiative Updates Blitz Week 2022
Academic Budget Planning
Inside the CPE's Graduate Profile and 10 Essential Skills
Institutional Assessment
SPOL Assessments

Academic Initiative Updates-University Studies and Regular Substantive Interaction (Blitz Week 2022)

This session will include brief overviews and status updates on several Academic Affairs initiatives, including the new University Studies Implementation, the policy for Regular and Substantive Interaction, and others.

Presenter: Facilitator, Professor Ashley Ireland, Assistant Provost and Director of Online Programs

Academic Budget Planning for Department Chairs (Blitz Week 2022)

This session will cover the forms, vocabulary, policies and procedures for budget planning for the next fiscal year, including best practices for budget adjustment season. Ample time will be provided for questions and answers.

Presenter: Camela Ramey, Academic Budget Coordinator, Academic Affairs, Professor Ashley Ireland, Assistant Provost and Director of Online Programs

Inside the CPE's Graduate Profile and 10 Essential Skills

This session will cover the Council on Postsecondary Education's (CPE’s) Kentucky Graduate Profile initiative, and the Profile's 10 Essential Skills. We will discuss how we are participating in the initiative and promoting its goals here on our campus.

Presenters: Professor Ashley Ireland, Assistant Provost and Director of Online Learning; Matt Purdy, Director of Career Services; Peggy Whaley, Director of SES, Student Affairs

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Institutional Assessment Submission Policies, Requirements and Deadlines

Do you want to learn more about Murray State University's assessment submission policies and deadlines? Are you interested in finding out about the elements of a complete assessment plan and report that conform with SACSCOC's Standard 8.2a requirements?

The Office of Institutional Effectiveness (OIE), in collaboration with the University Assessment Committee, established a set of assessment policies, requirements, and deadlines to guide Murray State University's annual assessment process. Pitzel Krotova, Assistant Director of Institutional Assessment at the OIE, will host an information session to equip program assessment coordinators with pertinent assessment-related information that will support successful submission of annual plans and reports that are SACSCOC compliant.

By the end of the information session, participants will be able to do the following:

Explain the institutional assessment policy
Identify the institutional assessment submission deadlines
Prepare a comprehensive assessment plan or report
Submit a comprehensive assessment plan or report

Presenter: Dr. Pitzel Krotova, Assistant Director of Institutional Assessment

SPOL Assessment Module: Creating and Submitting Annual Assessment Plan/Report

Do you need a refresher training about developing and submitting your annual assessment plan or report using the SPOL software?

Strategic Planning Online or SPOL is a comprehensive, web-based management system that simplifies and supports the process of measuring student learning outcomes and optimizing institutional effectiveness. As SACSCOC requires all of our academic programs to demonstrate how assessment efforts and results are being used to develop and implement meaningful action plans for continuous improvement, Murray State University acquired SPOL's Assessment Module to help address assessment needs right from developing annual assessment plans to documenting assessment findings and results. In Fall 2021, Office of Institutional Effectiveness (OIE) introduced SPOL to all department chairs and program assessment coordinators to use in replacement of the manual usage of Word file assessment template and submissions of plan/report via Canvas. Pitzel Krotova, Assistant Director of Institutional Assessment at the OIE, will conduct this SPOL Assessment Module refresher training session.

In this session, Pitzel will discuss SPOL's major functions that will help faculty, particularly program assessment coordinators, in finalizing their assessment plans and reports.

Session Objectives

Participants will review how to complete the following important steps:

Log in to SPOL via myGate
Develop a complete program assessment plan
Submit a complete program assessment plan
Record a complete program assessment report
Submit a complete program assessment report
Associate or disassociate program learning outcome(s) with its academic emphases (tracks, concentrations, specializations)
Associate or disassociate measure(s) with the program learning outcome(s)
View approval history and notes

If time allows, additional functions may be covered (e.g., adding program members, creating findings as a program member, modifying course alignment matrix, and downloading SPOL built-in assessment reports).

Presenter: Pitzel Krotova, Ed.D., Assistant Director of Institutional Assessment